During his interview with Kurt Angle on Kurt’s podcast, former WWE star Matt Riddle cleared some things up after making headlines by saying that if it wasn’t for Brock Lesnar, he would have won the Royal Rumble:
“I wouldn’t say if it wasn’t for Brock Lesnar. Brock Lesnar doesn’t write the script. Anybody that’s been in the back knows people can be very influential and I’m not gonna say I was guaranteed to win because anybody that’s wrestled in WWE, nothing’s guaranteed. I had the United States title that I was supposed to keep. I lost it. Me and Randy were supposed to turn on each other. We didn’t. A lot of things are told to you and don’t happen and other things happen, but yes, at one point, I was told it was a possibility that I would win the Rumble and that I was gonna do a triangle to Brock and this and that, and when Brock came in the back, and Brock is Brock. I have no hard feelings. He just did the job to Bobby. He goes, ‘Hey, you guys got to do business for me. I did this good business for Bobby and you do good business for me’, and we’re like, ‘all right.’ What are you gonna do, you know, and everybody was like, ‘Okay’, and that’s what we did.”
There have been reports over the years about Riddle rubbing some people the wrong way. Goldberg, Lesnar, and Seth Rollins are a few examples. Riddle talked about why he feels he gets heat with some wrestlers:
“I think it’s because I came from the world of Mixed Martial Arts,” Riddle said. “Even if you hear what fighters say to each other to get ticket sales, it’s ruthless. Even if you heard like, you know, Dillon Danis is talking to Logan Paul for their boxing match, he’s bringing a girl, this, that and the other thing. The fight game is ruthless, and honestly, I feel like I’m not that ruthless. I’ll talk some trash here and there. I did, and in professional wrestling, unfortunately, you know, it’s confusing to me because I would think we do what we do, it’s kind of a work, that people would be more flexible with it, but instead, they take stuff way more personal, and every time I open my mouth, somebody takes something personal.”
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